This post hits close to home and could not be more accurate satire of the pains of property management. I spent a number of years building a competitor to RealPage's Resident Portal, ActiveBuilding (shoutout https://henrihome.com).
RealPage and Yardi dominate the industry with some of the worst software imaginable. The price fixing and competitiveness in the industry is a feature not a bug.
ActiveBuilding basically built thefacebook.com for residents where the sticky feature was online rent payment. They of course got bought by RealPage which continued to operate it as is for a long time with few improvements, but landlords were tied to the ecosystem and didn't really care about the resident experience as long as they could pay rent online and submit maintenance requests. Also who the F decided that they don't need spaces in Product names over there?! ActiveBuilding RealPage.
7 years of Experience at Startups in various Technology Roles and 10+ years of Project Management Experience. SME in the Banking, Real Estate, and eCommerce Industries.
I felt that email clients hasn't changed much in the last 20 years and that there is a lot of improvements that can be done in this space, please note, the features that exists now in Ivelope consists of just a small percentage of what will come...
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When I worked at Bank of America I tried to do something similar with their Keep The Change program, allow customers to have their 'change' go to the charity of their choice instead of their savings account, I called it Give the Change. I could never get it past the product team so I'm glad to see this project pop up on HN today! Keep at it
I was recently trying to dig up the IDE's of the early internet publishing platforms like Geocities, Tripod, MySpace (1.0) to try and do a similar project. Could only find the archived pages/assets like this.
Love to see YC branching out to those unable to migrate to SF immediately. As someone that's been through other incubators and been extremely underwlemed by my experiences; this is a fantastic idea. I know YC is open to all types of ideas and companies, but there is obviously a concentration on software/hardware related ideas. I'm curious if YC has funded any non-hardware/software startups? Any examples?
RealPage and Yardi dominate the industry with some of the worst software imaginable. The price fixing and competitiveness in the industry is a feature not a bug.
ActiveBuilding basically built thefacebook.com for residents where the sticky feature was online rent payment. They of course got bought by RealPage which continued to operate it as is for a long time with few improvements, but landlords were tied to the ecosystem and didn't really care about the resident experience as long as they could pay rent online and submit maintenance requests. Also who the F decided that they don't need spaces in Product names over there?! ActiveBuilding RealPage.
Rant over